30 Sep, 2022
Predictions of a Ukraine victory are premature
Something extraordinary is happening in the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Putin is taking a hit from all sides. Opposition to the war is coming from home and abroad.
22 May, 2022
Humility
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin declared that he wants Russia weakened. Of course he meant militarily weakened.
17 Feb, 2022
Afghanistan on the brink of disaster??
Gay rights, women’s rights — in reality, these are a nuisance to many U.S. conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the world is a great excuse to play war. And you don’t need bombs to play.
12 Feb, 2022
‘Thank You for Hearing Our Afghan Pain’
People in the United States must recognize the suffering their country continues inflicting in Afghanistan...
17 Nov, 2021
U.S. killer drone attacks kill innocent civilians
As a people represented by our government, what gives us the right to go into other countries and indiscriminately assassinate people? Do we think that “American exceptionalism”...
16 Sep, 2021
A national rite of passage: Beyond war
A recent New York Times op-ed was perhaps the strangest, most awkward and tentative defense of the military-industrial complex — excuse me, the experiment in democracy called America...
11 Sep, 2021
To Counter Terror, Abolish War
To Counter Terror, Abolish War by Kathy Kelly 1204 words Published in: War is a Crime, Code Pink, Eurasia Review,...
8 Sep, 2021
The value of looking backward
Former President Obama famously expressed his belief about the “war on terror” that “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backward.” Will we learn from the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan? Only by looking backward. An honest assessment would show...
6 Sep, 2021
Sept. 11 – Day of Warning
Sept . 11 is approaching – the 20th anniversary of the most startling event in the lifetime of most adults...
2 Sep, 2021
After Afghanistan . . . A Truth Commission?
“Ten members of one family — including seven children — are dead after a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul . .
23 Aug, 2021
Only religious war remains
The Taliban seizure of Afghanistan underscores an ugly 21st century fact: Religion-based warfare remains the world’s worst type of armed conflict, and the “holy warriors” display barbaric cruelty...
20 Aug, 2021
Explain it to me like I’m a two-year old
Imagine the Biden approach to leaving Afghanistan were done as if success and saving lives were the priority...
19 Aug, 2021
Look! Take an Afghander at that perennial FUBAR
I'm sure many of us older players recall where we were when the planes hit on 9.11.2001...
17 Aug, 2021
The Afghanistan debacle
Over a nearly 20-year period, the war in Afghanistan is estimated to have cost about $2.2 trillion and resulted in more than 240,000 deaths, military and civilian, on all sides...
16 Aug, 2021
“There is no military solution.” Time to get real about it.
“There is no military solution to the conflict.” That was the conclusion reached by the Biden administration earlier this year, which set into motion the plans for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of August...